Dictionary-based sentiment analysis of Hinglish text and comparison with machine learning algorithms
Harpreet Kaur, Veenu Mangat, Nidhi Krail · International Journal of Metadata Semantics and Ontologies · 2017
With the recent development of web 2.0, there has been a lot of increase in social networking and online marketing sites. The data obtained from these sites are analysed for better human decision making. Sentiment analysis involves extraction of sentiments from reviews. Sentiments can be positive, negative or neutral. Most of the content on the internet is in the English language, but with the improved awareness of people, data in other languages is increasing gradually. Not much work has been done in Indian languages. Hinglish, a mixture of Hindi and English, is an informal language which is exceptionally famous in India as individuals feel greater talking in their language. In this paper, we present a dictionary-based approach for Hinglish text classification. We also implemented traditional machine learning classification algorithms such as SVM, NB and ME for comparison. It is found that for Hinglish text, dictionary-based classification gives best accuracy results.